Betting stopped on Australian of the Year awards over suspected leak

Bookies have stopped taking bets on the Australian of the Year awards as police investigate whether 2020’s winner was leaked

Bookies make stopped-up(a) taking bets on the Australian of the Year awards as law look into whether 2020’s victor was leaked.

Deputy Prime Minister Ben Morton asked the Northern Territory Licensing Commission to hold betting piece federal authorities deal a probe into allegations that insiders divulged lowest year’s victor, Grace Tame.

Tame is a sexual blackguard survivor turned activistic who won a watershed legal fight inward 2019 that upset Tasmania’s muzzle laws and allowed her to publically come out her abuser.

She took rest home the prestigious grant on 26 January during the annual ceremonial organised by the National Commonwealth of Australia Clarence Shepard Day Jr. Council (NADC), eking out a win against runners-up Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy and former New South Cymru Fire Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons.

But her win is now overshadowed by claims that her triumph was leaked before existence officially announced.

In the weeks leading up to the announcement inward January, betting odds on Tame to win were slashed from AU$6 to AU$1.36.

This prompted concerns and the matter was referred to the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission and later, to the Aboriginal Australian Fed Police (AFP).

“The Australian Fed Police recently informed me they are investigating a suspected clapperclaw of public office, or the habituate of insider information, to wager on nominees for the awards,” wrote Morton, as quoted by the Daily Mail.

“While the investigation is ongoing the AFP considers the power to wager on the awards poses a risk to the integrity and report of the awards and has the potency to erode confidence inwards the NADC.”

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